Ramjattan urges full disclosure of state accounts

Khemraj Ramjattan during his budget presentation yesterday

AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday accused the government of unlawfully stashing billions in bank accounts held by numerous state agencies and he called for a full disclosure.

“You can’t tek half de money and hide it up somewhere and then come here with a budget and say that the Consolidated Fund’s revenue section indicating ‘x, y and z’ is the figure! That is absolutely wrong and a breach of the constitution and the Attorney General must know this,” he declared to members of the National Assembly during his contribution to debate on the 2012 national budget.

Referring to the 2010 Auditor General’s report, Ramjattan highlighted several instances of the bad management of the country’s finances. “We in this country can only know whether we are